The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-10-06
CREsCO, IOWA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1887

CRESCO, IOWA, THU RSD.
shot at Eldred Oliphant, with whom he had
quarrelled about escOrting girl home
from the church and that the pistol ball
missed Oliphant and struck Bluf0rd.
Eleven criminals were publicly whipped in
the Newcastle, N. j., Jail yard: John Black
stone, George Douglass, colored, were
whipped with 1O leshes each for petty
thieving, and Alfred Tally, John Stidham,
and Harry Harper, whites, 10 lashes, and
two others with five lashes each. Charles
Blake, the notorious burglar, was severely
punished with 20 lashes and an hour in the
pillory.
The remains Of the late Gen. J. B. Ricketts,
were inferred in the military cemetery ut
Arlington, ID, G., with military honors. Tho
casket was covered with the American flag
and an profusion OF flowers. The paI bear.
ers were Gen. Anger, Gen. Bennett, Gen.
Grsham, Gen. Wright, Admiral Almy and
Surgeon General Gunnrll The body bear
ers were old soldiers with Gen. Ricketts,
during the war.
The order Of the Supreme Court of
Illinois, to the sheriff Of Cook county, so far
as it related to Oscar Neebe, one Of the con
demned Anarchists, was executed by his
removal to tho penitentiary ut Joliet, where
he is to serve term Of fourteen years The
Inc dent was SO managed that he had
reached Joliet and been turned over-to the
authorities there before 1t was known at
Chicago that such action had been taken.
At Montreal, Canada, fire broke out in
the lumber yard in the rear of the Montreal
furniture ccmpany's building and spread
hot
pany's building, the saw and planning mills
of Isaac Craig and Cousinau Il Valiquetti's
door and sash factory were soon a mass OF
flames. A lnrge number of dwellings in the
immediate vicinity were badly scorched.
The loss will reach $1,000; covered by in
surance.
Pclltical and Personal.
FIX Senator Thurman has been quite sick
at his Ohio home.
Cardinal Gibbons is about to make trip
through the West and Northwest.
The Treasury department will buy si4,-
00O,OOO OF bonds, by Oct :, il 50 many are
offered.
Senator Stanford gays the university he
is founding in California will absorb all his
wealth, and will be for the exclusive benefit
Of the poor.
George Francis Train is to make speeches
from now until Nov. II, the proceeds from
admission fees to be given to the families
of the condemned anarchists.
During President Cleveland's absence on
his journey Secretary Bayard will be Presi-
dent pro tenn. thus putting in force the new
presidential succession law. Mr.. BEyard
will probably reside at the White House for
the next three weeks.
Secretary Fairchild, has returned to
Washington, and resumed active control of
the treasury department. He declines to be
interviewed on the financial situation, and
says that the future policy of the depart
ment will be made public through it acts
and not otherwise.
About year ago Miss Blanche Buswell
OF West Troy, N. Y, went to California
| to visit relatives. While there she met G.
| y. Walkeriy, wealthy merchant and
manufacturer. Eventually she became
Walkerly s wife. A short time ago Mr..
| Walkerly died, leaving his whole fortune,
amounting to between S,OOo,OOO and
81, 1880, 10, to his wife.
The Treasury department at Washington
has received from United States Marshal
Banks, of Massachusetts,. vouchers showing
| that the expenditure Of over Ss3 900 by hi.
| sending in his accounts that made the
| Treasury officials somewhat apprehensiye,
and as the amount for which he may now
| be liable is brought within the limit OF his
bonds by the vouchers sent, the department
hOnored his draft for about u, 100.
Maj. Coleman G. SIMPSON, OF Carthage,
ILL.,, enrolling clerk OF the United States
Senate died of apoplexy, at Washington
| u. e. aged 81 years. He was appointed q
clerk in the office OF the senate by Col. John
w. Forney in 1851 upon the personal recon-
| crap letter now among the effects OF the
deceased. For twenty-six years Mr.. Symp
| son served the senate, the last seventeen
years Of which he has SD acceptably per
formed the duty Of enrolling clerk as 70 gain
the praise Of all who were acquainted with
him. Recently q prominent senator said o1
him: "FOr more than twenty years he hal
| served the senate, and has never been found
in single mistake"
President Cleveland and party leave
Washington on the 30th, ON q
special train which he has en-
gagged for his twenty-five days trip
| at q cost OF possibly SIC GU, the journey
covering nearly 4,5to miles, The train will
consist Of three cars in all. One composite
car, Alfarata, one sleeping car, Velesco
and the private car of George NJ. Pullman
These cars have tine vestibules attached
similar to the Pullman cars operated ovel
the Pennsylvania railway between New
York, Chicago and Cincinnati. The car,
are provided with electric lighting arrange
ments and = small dynamo engine will b.
carried in the composite car. 1t will be thu
handsomest train exteriorly and interiorly
ever placed on rails.
i prao;.loc< o,,d MSc 6sloroJor1 l~ocor <hc;,
visit to the West and South, leaving
Washington at 10 .. NJ, proceeding vi,
Baltimore, Altoona, Pittsburg into Ohio
the first day. The travelling party con
sisted exclusively of the President and Mrs
Cleveland, Messrs. Bissell and Bryant, ant
Col. Lamont, p. V. DeGraw, the representa-
tive of the United Press. +. T. Bickford
Of the Associated Press. and Superintendent
Baldwin of the Pullman Palace Car com
pany. At Baltimore there was a larg
crowd, at Harrisburg S,OO0 people greetet
the travellers and at other points there wer,
multitudes in waiting to see the Presiden
and his wife, and none were disappointed
as the distinguished travellers made it ,
point in every instance to bow thei
, acknowledged MT to the salutes tenderet
them.
ii The Volunteer Wins.
Perhaps 50, O,00Oor more people witnessed
, the great race on the 9TH, between tn
American Volunteer and British Thistle
! over the course of the New York yachting
club. The official starting time was
, Thistle, II $500; Volunteer, 1884. 5Sl4 Bot
The moment they were off the great flee
Of pleasure boats started after them, follow
, ed later by the Electra, which overhauie
the crowd Then happened one Of the mos
, remarkable tn ngs ever seen in yacht race
. The two yachts went into the narrows wit
the Thistle several hundred feet ahead {
the Volunteer, and came cut with the Vo
unteer good half mile ahead of the Thistl
the Volunteer booming along at great rat
of speed, while the Thistle was standin